Share The Powell Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, is one of many in the 10-campus system involved in the new publishing deal. Wolterk/iStock California universities and Elsevier make up, ink big open-access deal Mar. 16, 2021 , 11:00 AM Two years after a high-profile falling out, the University of California (UC) system and the academic publishing giant Elsevier have patched up differences and agreed on what will be the largest deal for open-access publishing in scholarly journals in North America. The deal is also the world’s first such contract that includes Elsevier’s highly selective flagship journals Cell and